President Donald Trump lashed out at congressional Democrats — and some “weak Republicans” — Friday over the push to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, criticizing those Republicans as “soft and foolish” for backing the effort.
“The Democrats are doing everything in their withering power to push the Epstein Hoax again, despite the DOJ releasing 50,000 pages of documents, in order to deflect from all of their bad policies and losses, especially the SHUTDOWN EMBARRASSMENT, where their party is in total disarray, and has no idea what to do,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“Some Weak Republicans have fallen into their clutches because they are soft and foolish,” Trump added.
He went on the argue that Epstein is the Democrats’ “problem,” not Republicans’.
CNN has reported that House GOP leaders are bracing for a significant number of Republicans to support the bipartisan bill led by GOP Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna that would compel the Justice Department to release the Epstein files.
The president has yet to respond on camera to this week’s House Oversight Committee release of Epstein emails that mentioned Trump, not stopping to answer reporters’ questions on Thursday during an event in the East Room.
